The Harbor, by Ernest Pootle, is set amongst the proletariat of the industrial Brooklyn waterfront. Sympathetic with socialism, it is considered one of the first American fictional works to present a positive opinion of trade unions.His novel His Family made him the first recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel (1918). But according to one commentator: "The consensus is that it's the lesser of the two works, that the Pulitzer committee was really honoring Poole for The Harbor".
The Harbor, by Ernest Pootle, is set amongst the proletariat of the industrial Brooklyn waterfront. Sympathetic with socialism, it is considered one of the first American fictional works to present a positive opinion of trade unions.His novel His Family made him the first recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel (1918). But according to one commentator: "The consensus is that it's the lesser of the two works, that the Pulitzer committee was really honoring Poole for The Harbor".
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